RIP the Great Leon Kossoff. Saw London Calling at the Getty-magnificent exhibition. Made me cry. A religious experience for me.

Grreat artist! The works are so rich!

Чудные работы! Живые , с ощущением свободы. Спасибо!

The London School for me was the last great Modern British painting movement. Unmoved by wider trends, Kossoff, Auerbach and Freud kept the flame of figurative painting alive, well after the Pop Art and YBA phenomenons lost their shine. Painting has been declared dead many times but whilst these guys were still painting the final death warrant was always denied. Auerbach and Kossoff painted London as Turner and Constable painted the the land and coast. London is a strange place, it is of Britain, yet it is also of itself. The dusty light, bomb sites, regular and irregular angles of the Post War years provide the backdrop to a metropolitan energy that only thick and juicy oil paint can capture. Lead White, with a little charcoal dust. Naples yellow and Burnt Umber. The laboured surfaces that Kossoff agonised over reflect the the rebuilding of a great city after the destruction of war. Life goes on in London but without Kossoff being a witness, the city is a different place. Though dear Leon, your paintings will live on. Much love

Grand artiste humaniste

Beautiful.

Slaps it on...digs it out...scraps about.....and grinds it in: great stuff

beautiful video. kossoff's death wasn't mentioned on the radio because he wasn't well known in the way that so many greatly inferior artists are. imagine the hoo-ha if hockney had died. or damien hirst or tracey emin. yet i value kossoff about a hundred times more than hockney. let alone the others. and more than auerbach too. so farewell then leon kossoff .. you weren't a self-publicist, you were shy and self-effacing. but your work remains an inspiration for this admirer.

Exceptional art , awesome 👌

"Not being able to do it is part of doing it..."

Poliedrico

doesn't this sort of thing offend Muslims?

A master of muddy painting and poorly drawn figures.